Along with thousands of his compatriots, Wladyslaw Anders was imprisoned by the Soviets when they attacked Poland with their German allies in 1939. They endured terrible treatment …
A pictorial history of the valiant Polish aviators who aided the RAF in the fight against the Luftwaffe.The Polish Air Force, which was created in Britain in the summer of 1940 …
A World War II pictorial history detailing Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz concentration camp, its monstrous creators, and what went on inside. The concentration camp at …
This memoir of a Soviet POW's escape from a Nazi concentration camp is a remarkable account of cruelty and courage during WWII. On November 6, 1942, seventy Soviet prisoners of …
Covers the six principal extermination camps in Nazi occupied Poland; a sobering reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust.Nearly 80 years on, the concept and scale of the Nazis' …
A historian's account of the experience of Poland's people and its military before, during, and after World War IIfrom 1918 to 1991. Poland was re-created as an independent nation …
In the summer of 1944 the Red Army crushed Army Group Centre in one of the largest offensives in military history. Operation Bagration - launched almost exactly three years after …
A detailed chronicle of Poland's efforts during World War II from beginning to end, by the author of Narvik and the Allies. The invasion of Poland by German forces (quickly joined …
Tom Firth was born in Japan where his English father and Polish mother were living. He begins by describing his unusual childhood and the devastating Yokohama earthquake in 1923. …
Napoleon's 1807 campaign against the Russians came close to being his first defeat. At Eylau the Emperor was outnumbered by the army of the Russian commander Bennigsen, yet he …
